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^'Old Uncle Joe ^iayo,"
^n article copied from "the Marysville Trlbutie" of
Wednesday, Apr. 27, 1881.
Almost everybody about Marysville knows UqcJ.o Joa..Mayo, the
old colored well-digger who has been In and about this place for the last thirty two years. We madeJinjcXe Joe a visit a few days ago at his lonely cabin half a mile west of town, and found him the same genial old Joe he ever was, but very much afflicted. He has passed his 80th year, and though hav¬ ing still a fair amount of bodily vigor, he is suffering with cancer, and besides Is blind, or near so x x x x
^e came by the name Mayo through his grandparents/ who were owned by one Joseph Mayo, a slave holder as well as slave Importer, ^n going after a cargo of slaves the ship was lost, and %yo was never heard of afterwards, but before starting made a will in which he set his slaves free, provided he should not return.
Uncle Joe came to Marysville in the year 1848, being then 49 years old. He was born in Mechlinburg County, Va., but after arriving at manhood he radiated through many counties In Va, as a teami^ter. x x x Uncle Joe while in Va. was familiarly called "jeemes -tiiver. x x He resided a mile or two west of town for a year, but shortly after bought the placaon which he now lives, and has remained there ever since, -^^'or twenty-five years he was the principal well-digger